Intravenous but not perineural clonidine prolongs postoperative analgesia after psoas compartment block with 0.5% levobupivacaine for hip fracture surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 873-878

  Mannion, Stephen ^a   Hayes, Ivan ^a   Loughnane, Frank ^a   Murphy, Damian B ^a   Shorten, George D ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; SEVOFLURANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; MALE; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSOAS COMPARTMENT BLOCK; PSOAS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 14544295355     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000143950.13939.7A     Document Type: Article

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